# A risque proverb from al-Andalus: 'the nerves are connected'

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/40/
- Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:09:50–3:12:21)
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=11390s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/

**Topics:** Al-Andalus and the Maghrib; Arabic poetry and men of letters

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** A bawdy Andalusian proverb, 'the nerves are connected', shared by Mufti Abu Layth as a joke.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth jokes again about a 'direct channel', then shares a proverb he read some time ago in a book of the proverbs of the people of al-Andalus [?]. In it, someone says the way to the beloved's heart is through the rear, and when asked how that could sway the heart, replies that the nerves are connected, which became the proverb. Mufti ties it back to the clip's driving metaphor.

## Transcript (machine tier, 3:09:50–3:12:21)

[3:09:49] open the direct Channel you know the somebody can open a direct Channel with shad Mas for communication you know this one brother brother so I was going to say this also reminds me we speaking earlier on about lelus Muslim Spain so there was this proverb book I read it a while back called theal the Proverbs of people of mus you know back then in Spain they had different Proverbs so in Arabic they kind of Arabic so in one of them the person is talking about the the you know the S but

[3:10:27] he says that he he's responding and this became a proverb then so that's why it's it's in the thing the the person says you know the way to the heart is uh through the the the through the back direct direct Channel you know through the direct Channel but through the the rear Channel Park parking at rear you know that one so it says in the thing this is in the actual book it's a quote and the person says you know the way to the way to the beloved's heart is through through the you know you got to

[3:11:06] you got to access the channel man the channel but through through the special so the other person says huh he says and how does that impact the heart like how does how does this have a a sway with the hearts so he says and this became the proverb he says the nerves are

[3:11:38] connected so this this one you know uh as uh as you were seeing here which which way should you drive a car [Applause]

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment Hv-BlBVTr4M/s/40. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/40/

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